Also I wanted to be able to love And we all know how that one goes, don't we? Slowly
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.
One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.
I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.